Maine high-school junior receives national student-advocacy award
Savannah Green, a 16-year-old junior at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, is one of four students nationwide to receive the GLSEN's Student Advocate of the Year Award.
The award "honors an outstanding young person who...
Children raised by same-sex couples do better in school, new study finds
According to a new study reported this week by the Boston Globe, children raised by same-sex couples "had higher test scores in elementary and secondary school and were about 7 percent more likely to...
Marblehead school counters trans bullying with professional training
After a transgender student at the Village School in Marblehead was bullied in December, the school, which educates about 700 fourth-to-sixth graders, quickly responded by organizing a professional training session on gender identity and...
Register by March 4 for EqualityMaine’s ‘Spill the Equalit-Tea’ youth conference
EqualityMaine is proudly hosting its ninth annual LGBTQ+ youth conference on March 8 on the Biddeford Campus of the University of New England—and calling it “Spill the Equalit-Tea,” and it’s literally overflowing with activity.
Registration...
OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
Mass. Trans Political Coalition receives $100K grant for leadership academy
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has received a $100,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Mass. Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. The funds will support MTPC's Trans Leadership Academy....
Northern Light Health in Maine partners with Bangor bookstore to bring LGBTQ titles to...
Northern Light Health, a psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine, is partnering with The Briar Patch bookstore, a local Bangor business, to distribute more than 100 LGBTQ books to staff, patients and families,...
Rhode Island youth sports program partners with LGBT+ youth initiative
Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), the Rhode Island nonprofit that inspires academic achievement through sports—namely, soccer—is partnering with the LGBT+ youth initiative Play Proud to train coaches to help their programs...
Vermont Reads program focuses on LGBTQ youth for its 2021 selection
The Vermont Humanities Council has selected the LGBTQ young adult novel "We Contain Multitudes" for its Vermont Reads program's book selection of 2021.
Partnering with schools, libraries and...
GLSEN study finds Massachusetts schools unsafe for many LGBTQ middle and high-school students
Despite many initiatives to make Bay State public schools more inclusive and welcoming to LGBTQ students, a recent national study by the LGBTQ youth advocacy group GLSEN finds Massachusetts schools "unsafe for many LGBTQ...
